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SECTIONS 8730-8742

WATER CODE
SECTION 8730-8742
8730. Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made by the members, employees or special advisers of the board. 8730.1. The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt. All applications shall be acted upon within 90 days of receipt, except that applications subject to the provisions of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code shall be acted upon within 180 days of receipt. Applicants may waive the requirement that applications be acted upon within such period. This section shall not apply to emergency permits. 8730.2. Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon. This section shall not apply to emergency permits. 8730.3. Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and their content and shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application. This section shall not apply to emergency permits. 8731. The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it. 8732. The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, or before the general manager or chief engineer of the board, at any place within the State. 8732.5. All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public. 8733. The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board. 8734. The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the applicant. 8735. The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence taken at the hearing, and a proportionate allowance, according to their usual rate of compensation, for the time of the members, officers and employees of the board required for the hearing. 8736. All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the State Treasury and credited to the balance remaining unexpended of any appropriation or assessment available for the general administrative expenses of the board. 8737. The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before the board. 8738. The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths. 8739. The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in civil actions. 8740. When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application. 8741. An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this part in the same manner and to the same extent as provided for in Sections 2009 to 2015, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the affidavit shall be received as prima facie evidence of the service or publication in any court or elsewhere. 8742. In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication, mailing or otherwise, of any of its assessments, orders, proceedings, hearings or other acts done or contemplated.

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